Rose: I’m very well.

Craig: Are you all right? Are you comfortable there? Sometimes it can be a wee bit odd.

Rose: It's a bit fresh in here, isn’t it?

Craig: I like to keep it cold; it reminds me from where I'm from.

Rose: Is that right?

Craig: Where are you from? You're not American are you?

Rose: No, I'm from Australia.

Craig: Which Part?

Rose: Sidney.

Craig: Sidney, Australia, That's the glamorous hip -- isn't it

Rose: Yes, totally glamorous, totally hip. No it's not really at all.

Craig: Sidney is like an American city I thought when I was there.

Rose: It's pretty cosmopolitan. Lots of --they're really into real-estate

Craig: Have you read cosmopolitan magazine by any chance? That’s the one that gives all the ‘tips’ you know for the ladies. Do you ever read it? I read it all the time.

Rose: Do you really?

Craig: I never met anyone who knows that...

Rose: We should hang out.

Craig: Britney in Powder Spring, she knew that one.

Rose: We should hang out more often. I haven’t read cosmopolitan for awhile. I find them a bit overwhelming those magazines. They tend to make you feel much worse than when you first started the magazine. And you feel pretty awful.

Craig: I usually feel a sense of shame.

Rose: Yes.

Craig: What part of America have you moved in? Where are you living?

Rose: I'm living in New York in the west village, yeah. We shoot down in the west village, yeah. It's beautiful, lots of um—

Craig: That’ll be nice for you, very quiet for you.

Rose: It’s pretty peaceful, but I'm actually living near a hospital so it's actually quite noisy. A lot of ambulances going past my apartment a lot. And they're very loud. The sirens in America are like serious, you know, {imitates siren} Like a really loud-- noise and it's like,’ I think I heard something...’

Craig: Well the whole thing is kind of, to get other people to move out of the way. Although I do have to be honest with you, in New York, they don't seem to move, now do they. The sirens are going and people are like 'Yeah, what?'

Rose: I know. No body moves, they've got their priorities in New York.

Craig: Do you feel like you've become a New Yorker?

Rose: A little bit definitely. No, I’ve got my place where I go for my coffee and my place where I like my brunch and where I do my laundry and you know all those sorts of New York things. And I found a good apartment which I like that, which you know takes awhile.

Craig: --it's near the hospital.

Rose: And thank god it’s near the hospital.

Craig: It’s true to anything. If god forbid anything happened to you, you'd be handy—you could just run bleeding down the street--

Rose: And I am a bit of a hypochondriac as well, yeah.

Craig: Oh really, what kind of illnesses—cuz I’m a bit like that as well.

Rose: Are you really? Well maybe it's a Celtic thing,

Craig: Yeah I think maybe it is. Are your family Irish, Scottish?

Rose: I'm Irish and Scottish heritage.

Craig: So you enjoy getting hideously drunk then.

Rose: {laughs}

Craig: Of course, you're an Australian what am I saying? Do you enjoy it?

Rose: Well, you know... (changes topic) New York is incredibly social. You meet for lunch, you meet for breakfast, you meet for dinner, drinks, cocktail, you know everything. It starts quite late as well, you know. Like in New York, if you meet at 8 it's OK if you leave at 8 to get there at 9, you know what I mean. It's all a different sort of time frames.

Craig: Being late is sort of passive-aggressive.

Rose: It is passive aggressive! I’m with you! I don't like that at all.

Craig: If you've got be there at 8 be there at 8.

Rose: Be there at 8, what's the problem?

Craig: I know it drives me nuts.

Rose: Like is this an honest relationship or what.

Craig: I'd like the aggressive to just be aggressive-aggressive

Rose: Same here. Just be aggressive. Let's just all be (bleeped: assholes) instead of this passive-aggressive (bleeped: shit). Sorry.

Craig: No, that's fine.

Rose: {inaudible}

Craig: So you enjoy working with Glenn Close?

Rose: Yes, I believe she came on your show.

Craig: Yeah she's a charming woman.

Rose: She's very charming, yes.

Craig: I was a bit scared of her, to be honest.

Rose: Oh why?

Craig: She’s Glenn Close. She's very regal.

Rose: She is, she is. She's very distinguished. And she's very classy. She's very smart.

Craig: How is she around your pets and stuff on the set?

Rose: Well I didn't bring my…

Craig: Is shy crazy? Nobody's watching. Do you think she's crazy?

Rose: She's not. No, she's an incredibly lovely, generous warm woman.

Craig: That's interesting. Every single person I talk to in show business gets along great with every other single person in show business

Rose: That's weird, isn't it? Who would have thought?

Craig: I know!

Rose: Who would have thought that everyone was friends?

Craig: It freaks me out.

Rose: And there's never a problem

Craig: It's almost like there were publicists behind things. It's so odd. Do you have all that? Do you have a publicist?

Rose: Yeah, I do, I do, yeah.

Craig: Hence here.

Rose: Yeah, that's the reason I'm here.

Craig: Yeah, all right. That's nice, That's good. Do you throw yourself into show business kind of social side? Do you go to the parties and premieres and everything?

Rose: I'm fairly timid. I'm quite a shy sort of person. I know I probably come across that I'm not but I am.

Craig: You come across as quite shy.

Rose: Yes, no, I am.

Craig: You do.

Rose: Really? Are you being passive-aggressive?

Craig: No, if I was being passive-aggressive, I'd do this 'oh yeah shy'

Rose: Yeah, there you go. Right, right. Quite like that. yes yeah. Oh you're really shy aren't you? You don't like going out, do you? It's really tough for you, isn’t it, in New York, with a tv show.

Craig: You're next to the hospital...Do you- Where do you go for your coffee?

Rose: There's a really great little place called Joe's Coffee on Waverly and Sixth which is excellent and they do a great soy latte which is my choice of drink. I'm a complete wanker when it comes to coffee, so I had to find the right place. And I have, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief.

Craig: Why was this coffee better than perhaps the other coffee?

Rose: Just the bean is really good quality and the—

Craig: Cat poo?

Rose: You know what I'm saying?

Craig: It is coffee that has gone through the digestive system of a cat? That's what I'm saying to you. Cuz that's the coffee that everyone's drinking.

Rose: Yeah, I know. It's definitely not gone through the digestive tract of a cat. That is a real tongue-twister, that one.

Craig: What, digestive tract of a cat?

Rose: That's good. That’s such a cute one. Yeah that's hard that one.

Craig: You are charming young woman but we haven't got anymore time. Will you come back and see us again

Rose: I would love to.

Craig: Oh lovely. Rose Byrne everybody. We'll be right back.

Written by: Cariel